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Thanks for trying to take a shot. However, I'm not even sure I'd recognize it again, if I heard it again. Things like this always happen to me. Anyway, to answer your questions, as good as I remember...

It was a soft, relaxed man's voice, a bit like that Brazilian samba guy, Gilberto Gil, so it could have been Brazilian, but the music itself most definitely wasn't in a Latin style. One instrument stood: an electric guitar with a sound like from the Police, or Laurent Voulzy (in technical terms: they probabl

While we're at it... can you tell me the titles for the most famous songs of Madredeus? I'm on the lookout for one particular song, one that made them famous here... but for the life of me, I can't seem to find the title.

In case anyone still cares: it was "O Pastor" that I was searching for. It's track 5 in the player on their website [madredeus.com]. A haunting melody, one you still won't forget after several years — as I can testify. "Oxalá" and "Haja O Que Houver" aree indeed very nice too, but some of the others I found not so convincing.

As for the song that started this thread: I've not heard it again. As expected.